I'd also like to find a way to say thank you to Aaron Parecki who built webmention.io and Ryan Barrett, Kyle Mahan, et al who built brid.gy. However, I can't see a way to do either and, indeed, the latter explicitly say "We don't need donations, promise." ❧
In the past, I’ve heard many of them say to make a donation or support the IndieWeb Open Collective instead.
Thanks for the pointer, Chris – I’ve just made a donation . Your reply has motivated me to work out how to reply to this post by posting on my own site! I’m also fascinated to see that you’re using https://hypothes.is/ for replies like this.
Hypothes.is allows for a few things:
They have a fledgling API as well as RSS/Atom feeds which I can pipe directly back into my site to own the data, post it, and send Webmentions if necessary. At present, I’m using a variation of a posting flow that uses IFTTT to get all the data back to my site’s Micropub endpoint: https://boffosocko.com/2020/01/21/using-ifttt-to-syndicate-pesos-content-from-social-services-to-wordpress-using-micropub/ (I’d eventually love Hypothes.is to be a fully featured Micropub client, but one thing at a time.)
Good luck on the explorations! If you have issues/questions hop into the chat.